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Dear Constant Blog Reader:

I currently maintain three blogs, but am considering combining them. They are this blog, CaliforniaComment.com, and JohnWayneCounty.com.

Combining the blogs would make it easier for me to do the computer maintenance needed, such as screening comments. (I approve all comments except spam.) That would leave me more time to write more blogs.

My original thinking was that three blogs — national, state, and local — would let readers decide what they wanted to read. Someone in New York City, for example, might not want to read local news about Orange County. And someone in Orange County might read my local comments, but not care what I think about the Iraq war.

But I’ve been thinking that, when I read blogs, I just skip over those items I’m not interested in. And I recall that some of my favorite columns from late Mike Royko were his local observations of Chicago, where I never have lived.

So, please let me know. Type something in the comment section below. Or email me: john@johnseiler.com

I’ll be deciding in a few days.

Yours,

John

Americans elected the Democratic Congress for one reason: Get us out of Iraq!

Congress has not done so. Instead, the Democrats running the place funded Prez Bush’s insane escalation of his foolish and bloody — and unconstitutional and unjust — war.

Now, yet another poll shows Congress’ approval rating dropping, this time to a record low of 14%.

Democracy, whose name the Demo Party bears, is supposed to mean rule of the people. Well, the people want America out of Iraq. The people elected the Demos to control Congress to get us out of Iraq.

Why are we still in Iraq?

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he’s no longer a Republican. Can he win the presidency, if he chooses to spend some of his billions pursuing it?

On the most vital issue of the day, Iraq, it’s not clear where he stands. But he’s cozy with antiwar Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel. If Hegel were at the top of the ticket, and Bloomberg running for vice president, it might stand a chance.

And we certainly need an alternative to the two-party duopoly.

The problem with Bloomberg is that, on most issues, he really is a left-wing Democrat who ran as a Republican only to avoid the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. He’s anti-gun, pro-abortion, and obsessed about high-tech baby cannibalism (infant stem cell “research”). He likes tax increases. And he believes humans cause global “warming,” when they don’t; yet he lives a lavish lifestyle that supposedly warms the earth.

Those issues don’t cut it in the South, in ethnic Catholic Rust Belt areas which also have a lot of hunters, or in the Plains States.

If Bloomberg heads the ticket, it’s hard to see how he wins. If Hagel heads it, there’s a chance. But why would the pro-life Hagel team with Bloomberg, except for the money?

I’ve been talking with a lot of Republicans the last two weeks, and almost none has any good words for President Bush. And this is ultra-Republican Orange County. Even when they support the Iraq war, they don’t think Bush is doing a good job running it.

This is in contrast to the last months in office of Ronald Reagan, when almost every Republican I knew in Orange County regretted the Gipper’s leaving office.

Bush’s base is deserting him, fast, over Iraq.

Last November voters dumped the Republicans and replaced them with a Democratic majority in Congress for one reason: to end Bush’s disastrous Iraq war and bring our troops home to their families.

Pelosi and her cohorts have not ended the Iraq war. So is it any wonder that just 24% of Americans approve of Congress’ actions?

Isn’t America supposed to be a Democracy?

Check out my JohnWayneCounty.com blog for comments on Iraq and the Vietnam war. Click here.

NY Mayor Bloomberg “is decrying the state of the 2008 presidential race, faulting the major party candidates for offering shallow, simplistic prescriptions, and scolding the press for failing to demand more from those seeking the White House.”

But he’s ignoring the maverick, principled candidacy of the great Ron Paul!

Bloomberg, best known as an ex-smoker fanatical in his anti-smoking mania, himself has no “new” ideas except more government, which is an old idea.

Bloomberg is part of the problem. Ron Paul is the solution.

It’s too bad we can’t have an Internet President, instead of the one imposed on us by the Washington, D.C. Establishment. Because then our Internet President would be my man, Ron Paul.

The Washington Post reports that Paul is by far the most popular politician on the Internet:

“At first I was skeptical of his increasing online presence, thinking that it’s probably just a small cadre of dedicated Ron Paul fans,” said Matt Lewis, a blogger and director of operations at Townhall, a popular conservative site. “But if you think about it, the number one issue in the country today is Iraq. If you’re a conservative who supports the president’s war, you have nine candidates to choose from. But if you’re a conservative who believes that going into Iraq was a mistake, Ron Paul is the only game in town.”

Added Terry Jeffrey, the syndicated newspaper columnist who ran Patrick J. Buchanan’s failed White House bid in 1996: “On domestic issues like spending and taxation and the role of government, Ron Paul is saying exactly what traditional conservatives have historically thought, and he’s pointing out that the Bush administration has walked away from these principles. That’s a very attractive argument.”

If Ron Paul isn’t elected president of the USA, maybe we can just ignore who does win and instead follow President Ron Paul of the Internet.

The last time the federal deficit dropped was in the 1990s, when Democrats ran the White House and Republicans the House and Senate. They always bickered, leading “good government” types to decry “gridlock.” But gridlock produced stalemates on how much money to waste, leading to lower spending.

Then we got Republicans, supposedly dedicated to balancing the budget and cutting spending, controlling all of Congress and the White House under Bush — and we also got record waste and deficits.

Good thing gridlock is happening again:

The federal deficit is running sharply lower through the first eight months of this budget year as growth in revenues continues to outpace the growth in spending. The Treasury Department said that the deficit through May totaled $148.5 billion, down 34.6 percent from the same period a year ago.

This time, of course, it’s Republicans who run the White House and Democrats the Congress. If this situation continues, the feds might continue wasting a little less of our money and produce a surplus — as last happened under gridlock in the late 1990s.